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Characteristic classes and transversality

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In this article, a geometric construction of the Stiefel-Whitney classes when ξ is a real vector bundle and of the Chern classes when ǫ is a complex vector bundle is given.
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This article is published in Topology and its Applications.The article was published on 2007-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Complex vector bundle & Stiefel–Whitney class.

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On some constructions of contact manifolds

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the topology of the contactomorphism group of high-dimensional contact manifolds and gave examples of contactomorphisms whose powers are all smoothly isotopic but not contact-isotopic to the identity.
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Examples of nontrivial contact mapping classes for overtwisted contact manifolds in all dimensions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors construct contactomorphisms of closed overtwisted contact manifolds that are smoothly isotopic but not contact-isotopic to the identity of the identity.
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Examples of non-trivial contact mapping classes for overtwisted contact manifolds in all dimensions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct contactomorphisms of closed overtwisted contact manifolds that are smoothly isotopic but not contact-isotopic to the identity of the identity.

A geometric construction of characteristic classes

TL;DR: In this paper, a geometrische Konstruktion of charakteristischen Klassen an, den Stiefel-Whitney Klassesen fur reelle Vektorbundel and den Chern Klassens fur komplexe Vekorbundels, is discussed.
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Algebraic topology

Allen Hatcher
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Topological methods in algebraic geometry

TL;DR: In this paper, the Riemann-Roch theorem for algebraic manifolds and complex analytic vector bundles is presented. But the authors do not consider the complexity of complex analytic line bundles.
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Singularities of differentiable maps

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of conditions générales d'utilisation of commercial or impression systématique, i.e., the copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright.